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http://www.cracked.com/article_15231_7- ... rable.html

I think it's pretty interesting.

We have worse scandals here:

Grail Movement Cult FTW!

-Username17

The Saga of Boatmurdered!

I found it to be pretty entertaining all round, but you can start in media res by skipping to the reign of StarkRavingMad, who narrates in a really good Swearengen impression.

This could be in IMHO, but, eh, this makes me cry, so..

Have a look at the current D&D Wiki Featured Article.

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Cassia_%28DnD_Deity%29

I'm not sure what I hate more: the way the first section was clearly all typed one-handed and she basically seems to be a Mary Sue character, or the way everything after was written - by a conservative Catholic who feels the need to suffocate everyone in his morality ("They become so evil they have sex for pleasure!")

Someone has mommy issues, I think.

Maxus wrote:This could be in IMHO, but, eh, this makes me cry, so..

Have a look at the current D&D Wiki Featured Article.

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Cassia_%28DnD_Deity%29

I'm scared that someone put that much effort into something that crappy. More wretch than cry if you ask me

What's the point of having an evil goddess of nymphs? Nymphs aren't evil in D&D land. She's the goddess of like five wenches.

-Username17

Heh, goddess for five whole people. Well, six, I suppose - five within the setting, and the author.

When I saw it, I actually posted in the discussion page pointing that there were a lot of 'evil' traits that just seemed arbitrarily put in, like her man-hating (yet she still lusts after men. She just black widows them afterwards) and her doing a 1984 and limiting the language for her followers and clergy, and that the core of her character seemed more Chaotic than Evil.

And I got a response like, "Oh, she's still very evil even without those traits. And this is a derivative game, so it's all right to swipe character traits and combine them."

Okay, I spent a lot of my time from ages 9-11 reading Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Turns out there was a whole genre, one of which was a dice-based fantasy with a stat/combat resolution system.

I would have geeked out over that.

Anyway, someone photoshopped new titles onto these old books, apparently.

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008 ... ad-habits/

Those books were awesome. I came across those a couple of years before I discovered the joys of roleplaying.

Granted, the link didn't work for me, so I can only assume we're talking about the same ones.

The link worked for me. It's... Well, alot of work for a penis joke, really. It's the Penguin - Steve Jackson adventures, not the CYOA brand or its knock offs.

Honestly, I'm thinking that those books really should have some serious collectibility value from how rare they are now.

-Crissa

Maxus wrote:Okay, I spent a lot of my time from ages 9-11 reading Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Turns out there was a whole genre, one of which was a dice-based fantasy with a stat/combat resolution system.

I would have geeked out over that.

If you're still interested in that sort of thing check out http://www.the-underdogs.info/gamebook.php

My favorites are Way of the Tiger and the Cretan Chronicles.

Also, the Lone Wolf (& Grey Star) books are up at http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

I got into GrailQuest at a very young age, years before I even knew full-on RPG's existed. I loved those books to bits. Pretty much literally, as it happens... Yay for nostalgia!

Maxus wrote:Okay, I spent a lot of my time from ages 9-11 reading Choose Your Own Adventure books.

Turns out there was a whole genre, one of which was a dice-based fantasy with a stat/combat resolution system.

I would have geeked out over that.

Anyway, someone photoshopped new titles onto these old books, apparently.

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008 ... ad-habits/

Ah, same here.
That, and Isaac Aasimov.

angelfromanotherpin wrote:Also, the Lone Wolf (& Grey Star) books are up at http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books

That's priceless. Maybe I'll write up a Kai warrior class.

FrankTrollman wrote:What's the point of having an evil goddess of nymphs? Nymphs aren't evil in D&D land. She's the goddess of like five wenches.

-Username17

Yet Forgotten Realms haves a goddess of Good Drow.

Yeah, but thanks to Drizzt there's like 83 million of the fuckers. As long as you include PCs, I imagine there are more good drow than evil; it's time they went on a cull if you ask me.

Koumei wrote:Yeah, but thanks to Drizzt there's like 83 million of the fuckers. As long as you include PCs, I imagine there are more good drow than evil; it's time they went on a cull if you ask me.

I don't get it. Why's Drizz't so popular?

Jerry wrote:I don't get it. Why's Drizz't so popular?

He taps into themes of rebellion, which strongly resonates with teenagers.

Seriously, it's because Drizzt kicks (or kicked) major ass. R.A. Salvatore writes a good fight, and Drizzt was fun. I mean, in the Crystal Shard, there's a fun scene where Drizzt, his magic panther companion, and a barbarian Drizzt had taught to fight, take on a 'lair' of 25 giants (mostly verbeeg), and Drizzt does some crazy, crazy shit.

Then, as books went on, Drizzt got more philosophical, until I was reading the books mostly for the other characters, who were pretty awesome. Especially Drizzt's rival, Entreri.

Then Entreri got his own trilogy (which was pretty awesome), and Drizzt had a trilogy that didn't do crap. Last year, the first book of a new Drizzt trilogy came out, and I still haven't bought it, and actually only got it at the library yesterday, and I don't know if I'll be able to read it.

If you want to know why there's 83 million good drow, try reading the Icewind Dale trilogy.

http://thedailywtf.com/ is pretty funny stuff, although you often have to know at least a little bit about programming to get the joke.

*cough*

http://www.cuteoverload.com/ It nearly always lightens my mood when I'm feeling down. A word of caution however, the cutespeak can maim you.

Eh, maybe we need a "Books that Make Us Laugh, Cry, or Both" thread, but for right now, I'm putting this here because we've discussed books before. Anyway, right now, I'm trying to read the latest Drizzt book.

And it's hard going, actually. I can't seem to get the motivation to find out what'll happen next (which usually lets me read *anything* all the way through once I start).

Apparently, even the Forgotten Realms novels are being converted to 4e setting philosophy, most notably the "Points of Light" setting idea. The prologue of the book is set a hundred years after the last book ending, and basically sketches in that the Realms have gone to hell in a handbasket. There was something called the Spellplague, and a mention of a disastrous merger of Faerun and another world, and that the area around Silverymoon is one of the few sane, relatively safe places left, and even then most people think chaos is creeping into there, too.

Then in the book proper, it cuts back to right after the end of the last book (more than hundred years ago) and you realize that cheerful little piece is actually what the future's going to be.

Sigh.

Anyway, at the beginning of the last Drizzt trilogy, Salvatore seemed to realized that his characters were nearing a "Happily ever after". So he completely upheaved the character's lives and set up a whole slew of new situations and tensions, which will probably last him the rest of the Drizzt books. This one just seems to be continuing what he set up in that one, but I'll let you know when I read the whole thing...